specific training in various fields and applications (contextualisation of skills and competences acquired in specific situations):

demand analysis;

consultancy contract;

setting (context and rules)

limits and potentiality of the intervention

indications and contraindications

evaluation

GOAL, PRINCIPLES AND METHODS

PROGRAMME GOALS

The programme goal is to form a PSYCHO SYNTHETIC COUNSELLOR. The training programme is meant for those who intend to acquire competences and abilities to carry out the ACTIVITY OF PSYCHO SYNTHETIC COUNSELLOR, to be construed as support and/or guidance in the areas of operational responsibility.

The overall objective is the acquisition of theoretical and applied skills and interpersonal and communication skills (necessary to carry out the work of psycho synthetic counsellor). We can distinguish:

acquisition and development of personal skills and abilities;

acquisition and development of specific skills and abilities (in the areas of operational responsibilities).

PSYCHO SYNTHETIC COUNSELLING

The PSYCHO SYNTHETIC COUNSELLING is, firstly, the establishment of an inter-subjective relationship between a person – or a couple or a group of people – who is in a problematic situation or existential conflict or criticism, and another person believed competent and able to help to direct and/or resolve the problem or conflict or individual – or pair or group – crisis. We can call it an encounter between two human players, one of which (individual or couple or group) feels that he is in a situation of existential difficulty – problem or conflict or crisis – and tries to expose it to another person, who listens to him carefully, aware and involved, and tries to help identify, properly set, guide and resolve his problem or conflict or crisis.

PURPOSE OF PSYCHO SYNTHETIC COUNSELLING

The PURPOSE OF PSYCHO SYNTHETIC COUNSELLING is to address a specific existential situation of difficulty and discomfort, facilitating the development and utilisation of inner resources and potentials of the customer, in order for the customer to implement a proper attitude in the face of his situation, which may be, accordingly, to process (transformative action and solution) or to accept a limit, by using however in both cases the situation of existential discomfort as an opportunity to promote a process of growth and maturation of the subject-customer. Therefore, we will have accordingly:

PROBLEM SOLUTION

Identification, definition (or re-definition) and the management of the problem (or a conflict or a crisis);

PERSONALITY OF REFERENCE THEORY OF PSYCHO SYNTHETIC COUNSELLING

The subjective identity (I-Self) as the centre, source and destination of personality;

The conscience and the will as the fundamental aspects of identity;

The conscience as a matter of awareness and opportunity of knowing-understanding-identifying the problem;

The will as a matter of conscious energy of the “I” and as possibility to act on the problem to solve it;

The relation as inter-subjective dialogue (I-You), which makes the flow of energy and the transformative processes possible;

The laws of psychodynamic that governs the interactions between the various psycho energies (which the will must take into account);

The stages of the act of will: purpose-motivation, deliberation, choice, statement, programming, management of implementation;

The ideal model as a new image of the personality to be achieved, corresponding to the making of a maturation step (solution of the issue);

The principle of synthesis: goal and mean of the psycho synthetic process, creative and evolutive expression at different levels and dimensions of the person and the context of life;

The transpersonal dimension that represents the most potential and essential quality, not ordinary states of consciousness beyond the boundaries of individuals.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND EVALUATION

Accredited by the National Board of Professional Counsellor – Coordinamento Nazionale Counsellor Professionisti – C.N.C.P.

CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION

The educational courses in psycho synthetic counselling are aimed, in preference, at professionals working in social aid and health care (Doctors, Psychologists, Nurses, Workers in Obstetrics, Social Workers, Professional Educators, Professionals in the field of Rehabilitation, etc), education (Teachers, Psychopedagogists, etc.), company (Manager, Coach, etc.), sports (Trainers, etc.), community (Directors of community, etc.), family and couples (Health Practitioners, Psychologists, etc.), and in general to operators performing activities strongly related to aid and support.

The course is also aimed at people working in the field of aid in recognised voluntary associations, as well as students or graduates in professions relating to aid.

In the end, the course is aimed also at people who, even if not belonging to previous categories, have strong and genuine motivation to perform a profession in the field of aid, and are in possession of good cultural knowledge as well as appropriate attitudes and personal qualities.

The minimum educational qualification requirement is a Diploma of Higher School.

The candidate student must send an application form to the School Office, addressed to the Director of the School, with attached a “detailed” 1 professional curriculum vitae.

Admission will be done after at least an appraisal of suitability of the candidate by a teacher authorised by SIPT (teacher or teaching assistant of SIPT)1, who will assess the evaluation2 and sent it to the Director of the School, who in turn will make the final ratification.

Notification to the student will be notified by letter. The view of assessment is final.

ASSESSMENT

After admission, the assessment of students is carried out:

a. Ongoing, through:

1. Students’ written reports on each workshops;

2. Evaluation of each teacher in each workshop;

3. Evaluation of the group tutor3

4.Assessment of the supervising teacher (individual tutor).

b. Interview examination at the end of the first year with a Commissioning body composed of three of the course professors (teachers and teaching assistant of SIPT), who will express the vote in thirtieths.

Students must have attended planned seminars and have delivered all written reports on each workshop; they will also be in possession of their individual trainer certification on the number of sessions conducted (at least 13 per annum) and the endorsement of their supervising teacher (with whom he must have had two sessions a year). This documentation should be delivered at least 10 days before the examination.

In any case, to access the first year exam, student should not have exceeded 20% of leave of absence in relation to the total hours of an entire year (including the hours of seminars, group tutor, individual training), with eventual reschedule in the following year.

c. Final examination and discussion of the thesis at the end of the course with a Commissioning body composed of three of the course professors (teachers and teaching assistant of SIPT), who will express the vote in thirtieths.

To access the final exam and the discussion of the thesis students must not have exceeded 10% of leave of absence of the two years of the course4.

The second year seminars will be interspersed so that students can reschedule any seminar missed during the first year. The developed thesis must be approved and signed by the supervising teacher and must reach the Secretariat of SIPT at least thirty days before the day fixed for the discussion.

d.

Students, who at the end of the two-year course will not have the quorum of attendance, cannot take the final exam and discuss the thesis. They can still enrol as “external” in the following year and attend the missed seminars, and, once reached the quorum of attendance, they will take the final exam and discuss the thesis at the end of the year, along with second-year-course students.

Art. 4 – EDUCATIONAL CREDITS

Students, who for various reasons (economical, family, etc.) break the course off, will be recognised and, if required, certified for the work done (individual and group), with an “educational credit”, which students can use later in case they decide to continue and complete their education. The duration of the educational credit is limited to 5 years.

notes:

1. There is a list of teachers empowered to carry out the interviews for admission; this list is approved and updated annually by the SIPT Commission of Education.

2. The assessment must follow a specific criteria, on the basis of a report of assessment guidelines from the Directorate of the School, which must be assessed and certified by the instructor.

3. The hours performed by the group tutor are 6 and distributed over the period of two years, and divided in 4 meetings of 1 ½ hours each.

4. This means that any leave of absence greater than 10% and within 20% of the first year will be rescheduled during the second year.

(The course is held only if the minimum number of 10 attendees is reached)

1.Training and professional practice: 274 hours (of which at least 50 hours of professional practice)

Agreements with the facilities, where students already work, or otherwise available (obtained by the students);

Reference to a “Tutor” (psychotherapist, counsellor, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, professional trainer, business manager, etc.), to whom the Head of the structure gives the position.

1. Training and individual supervision: 20 hours

Individual Psychosynthesis is performed by individual Trainers from the School of Counselling:

SIPT teachers;

SIPT teaching assistants;

SIPT psychotherapists authorised by the Teachers Commission.

The individual supervision is reserved exclusively for:

SIPT teachers

The distribution of individual education and supervision hours (within the twenty hours) varies according to individual didactic-training situation and is established by the supervising teacher (agreeing with the student and the individual trainer).

2 workshops of 12 hours each on the practice of psycho synthetic counselling:

Practice of psycho synthetic counselling – 1

Practice of psycho synthetic counselling – 2

5.Thematic seminars on in-depth theory and practice (in the various fields of application)2: 108 hours

9 seminars of 12 hours each in the following areas of application. The student can choose a specific area (compulsory attendance of the 3 seminars of the chosen area and at least one seminar for each of the other areas). The eventual missing hours will be replaced with training activities/professional practice, to be carried out during the course, or with educational credits for cultural activities undertaken in the previous two years, or in the current year, subject to evaluation and approval of the supervising teacher.

SOCIAL AND HEALTH AREA (to protect the weaker section of society): 3 seminars

Counselling and child distress

Dependance counselling

Counselling in the aid of family members with people with serious illnesses

SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL AREA (school counselling, psycho-pedagogical, re-educational): 3 seminars

Metacognition of early school leaving

Physical and emotional violence. Victimisation and bullying

Psychology of adolescence. Counselling with the adolescent

SOCIAL AND BUSINESS AREA (business counselling): 3 seminars

The inner path of the socio-business psycho synthetic counsellor

Work concepts and models based on Psychosynthesis in the practice of socio-business psycho synthetic counselling